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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11

The little mamma looked very tired
but she assented with her whole hear
to what Seth said. Here was her world
These two were her treasures.
They had barely been able TO pay tn
interest On their home with all of Seth
''figgerin'," when the baby was taker
very i'll and doctor was called in.
Then followed dreadful siege O
sickness. The doctor came three or -four
times n day. The father and mothe
were watchers and nurses themselves
bnt at last the little fellow was save,
and the long, dreadful anxiety was over
Then Seth brought out that well
known pencil and paper.
'Ive been figgerin'," he said, but thi
time more gravely than was his wont
sand it seems to me now, if nuthin.
happens. that we'll have the house ant
lot paid for inside of five years-tha
amt long, Neelie, is iti'
Neelie did not answer. She was look.
ing ut the thin hand, oh, so much thin
ner than hers had ever been-that helt
the fatal pencil in such a jaunty way
Her eyes were full of tears.
you're worn out" he said kindly
'but you needn't worry dear; the baby.
all right, and I've been figgerin'.r
'Tve been figuring too" said Neelie
'and after this 1 am going to be &C
countant of the firm. You've lost you
place, Seth, at the store but I've takei
it. I'm glad l learned book keeping ant
need change of work. Sister Allie,
is coming to take care of the house ant
the baby, and you are to take vaca.
ton
He gave her one stricken look, ther
bowed his head on his arms and il h,
wept it did honor to his manhood and
was naught to be ashamed of, sine,
it was Gods will that he should be LAID
aside.
The doctor was at the bottom of il
all. He saw that worry and privation
and hope deferred, had sapped the very
depths of Seth Dakin's life, and tina
now the end was very near.
Brave Neeliel true little wifel Sh,
went down to the store every morning,
swallowing hard all the way to kee.
down the sobs she had time to utter.
She Is there yet, clad in her widow,
weeds, working daily with one strong,
resolute purpo5e-to keep Seth's home
for Seth's boy-and she will do it, never
doubt
The end came happily to Seth. II,
was proppcd up in bed, looking at tn,
sunset with fading, wistiul eyes. Sud
denly he turned to Neclic.
''1ve been fggerin'," he said in the
old cheerful way; GIVE figgered it all
out--and there's - a. balance--a- bal.
ance-Neelic, dear ahead. - detroit
Free Press.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11

Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, the wealthy
Pittsburg manufactures, speaking at a
meeting in Dunfermline, Scotland, said
'the hero Of the future would not be
the man who could boast Of having TAX
en- life, but he who saved or greatly
served his fellows. 1t was quite proper
for man to fight in defence of his coun-
try, but it was morally wrong for him
TO enlist into the army as profession,
and go forth and Stay his fellow man
irrespective of the Justice of the
cause for which he drew the sword"
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11
AZ Darn OF Day.
Tho yellow lighthouse star is quenched
Across the lonely sea:

Tho yellow light-house star Is quenched
Across the lonely sea;
The mountains rend their misty wells,
The wind Of dawn blows free;
The waves beat with gladder thrill,
Pulsing in lines of spray,
And fast and far chime ON the bar
God bless my dear today
A thousand leagues may lie between
A world of distant dim;
But speeding with the speeding light
My heart goes forth TO him.
Faster than wind or waves il flies,
AS love and longing may,
AMI undenied stands BIZ his side
God bless my dear today
God bless him IL he wake to smiles
Or IL he wake to signs;
Temper his will for every fate,
And keep him true and wise;
BE to him all fain would be
Who is so far away,
Light, counsel, consolation, cheer
God bless my dear today
The gradual light has grown full dim
And streameth far abroad;
The urgence of my voiceless plea
Is gathered up by God;
Take some sweet thing which else were mine
Truly dare to pray,
And with il brim his cup of Joy
God bless my dear to-day
|lSusan Coolidge, in Independent
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11

A pathetic tale of the hardships of
poverty comes from New York. Mrs.
Ned" Murphy of Mulberry street,
supports herself and two little children
by doing washing. The other day Mrs.
Murphy carried to one of her customers
basket of clean clothes and returned
home with two one dollar bills, the first
money she had earned for several days.
She laid it on the table and while her
back was turned her son Tommy, who
was hungry, proceeded to devour the
bills. He had succeeded in destroying
iportion of each when discovered. A
Kind neighbor interested himself in the
case and succeeded in getting the two
bills exchanged for good ones at the
Sub-Treasury
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11

Love songs arc plentiful with the
Aighans, though whether they are &C.
quainted with love is rather doubtful.
Woman with the Afghans is n purchase.
bic commodity; she is not woed and
won with her own consent, she is bought
from her father The average price OF
a young and good looking girl is from
about 800 TO 500 rupees. TO reform the
ideas Of an Afghan upon that matter
would DC desperate task When Scid
Ahmed, the great Wahabi leader.
the prophet, leader and king Of
the Iusufzai Afghans, tried to abol.
ish the marriage by sale, his power
fell at once, he had to flee for hi,
life, and died m outlaw. There Is No
song in the world so sad and dismal a,
that which is sung 20 tho bride by hei
friends. They come to congratulate
no, to console her, like Jcphtha's dauqh.
ter they go 20 her, sitting in corner.
and sing:
you remain sitting in a corner and cry e
us
What can wc DO for YOU,
Your father has received the money!
All Of love that the Afghan knows j.
Jealousy. All crimes arc said TO hav,
their cause in ono Of the three zs-zar.
zamin or ron, money earth or woman
the third is in fact the most frequent
OF the three causes II Contemporary
Review.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11
A STARTLING STORY.
CHASTITY Discovery In the Ruins OF
One OF Hurlcy's Dcns Of Infamy.


HURLEY, Wis.-Tlis town again be-
comes conspicuous with lurid sensa-
tion in connection with Tire wretched
dives and haunts Of infnmy which flour
ish here. A number Of these dens we're
burned in the big fire Among those so
destroyed and not rebuilt w1s one that
stood on the very edge Of n deep ravine,
near the main street. Under the ruins
Of this old den the murdered bodies Of
seven have been found. The discovery
Of the bodies was quite an accident.
Two men, with their dogs, started out
on hunt. In leaving the town they
Glanced TO GO by the way Of the ravine.
Soon they missed one Of their dogs, and
n moment later heard the animal howl
ing mp the ravine The we'll trained
dog did not answer the whistle, but
continued 10 howl most dismally Lit
tie dreaming the cause Of its actions the
hunter went in search Of the dog.
AS they approached the site Of the old
den ON the ravinc's brink their nostriIs
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11
Nv Huudredh case.

Doctor do you think that sha II re-
Govern
81 don't think anything about it,
know it."
And pulling n paper out of his pocket
he hands it to the patient.
Here are the statistics relative to
your case You see that ono out Of every
hundred IS cured. "
WOLF asks the sick man, nearly
frightened TO death at the announce
mcnt
"Well! you're the hundredth I've
treated; the other ninety | lost.
49, Judge.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11

In former days tame turkeys were fed
with walnuts to give them the taste Of
Wild turkeys. In Italy turkeys arc
always fattcncd with waInuts Thirty
days before n turkey is 10 he killed one
walnut is stuffed down his throat. Each
day he is given an additional walnut,
and on the both day lac has 20 walnuts.
lie j. then immensely fat have often
wondered why our turkey breeders do
not adopt this plan - London Truth.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11

Otter Belt, one of the greatest of Co
manche chiefs, died lately in Indian
Territory. Five minutes before his
death they held him erect and rugged
him out in his best war costume. They
painted him red, set his war bonnet on
ais head, tied up his hair in beaver
skins, and laid him down just as he
died. Then his five wives took sharp
butcher knives, slashed their faces with
long, deep cuts, cut themselves in other
places, and beat their bleeding bodies
and pulled their hair. They also burned
everything they had-tepecs, furniture,
md even most Of the clothing they had
On. A big crowd of bucks looked on
md killed ten horses, including a favor
tie team of Fress Arlington, on whose
anch Otter Belt lived.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11
South Branch InteIIiqencer.


There is some danger in being too
progressive scientist When Professor
Mendclaien was descending in his mill
tary balloon near Moscow, after observ-
ing the recent eclipse, several peasants
ran out Of the village Of Oderkof with
guns to shoot ''the evil beast that had
darkcDed tho face of the SUM-"
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11
Sessione of the Co,,.ts

Sessions OF the Courts
Circuit Court. i3sh Judicial circcit, Hon
james ID. Armstrong, presiding Terms Be
gin as folio .:
Grant County Fourth Tuesday in March
6s, Tuesday in June and third Tuesday in
October
Hsmpshire Coaaty-First Tuesday in Feb.
raary. second Tuesday ia May aad thirj
Tuesday in September
Hardy COUNTY --Secoad Tuesday Ia March
Lst Tuesday in May and 6rst fuesday in
October.
Mineral County Second Tuesday in Jan.
uar., fourth Tuesday in April and 6rst Tues
dAy in september.
Psndleton co1nty---Second Wednesday in
April, Wednesday afier second Tuesday in
June, and ngst Wednesday il November.
Couniy Court Of hampshire County John
r. Vance. President; l.. u. Schniboe aud L.
d Poweii Commissioned! q. ). n hite. Clerk
The regular Sessions are neld bSginuing on
the hrst Tuesday in January, Ay.ril aud DC.
tober, and 4th Tuesday ia July.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11

One Of the exhibits at the Mechanics
Fair in San Francisco was a fountain that
gushed forth Angelica WINE free to any
one who wished to drink. In another de-
partment of the exhibition was table
eight feet high and fourteen feet across
which had been made from a single trans
verse section Of a Humboldt County tree
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11

Oh Lady Gin grocery store) what
do you sell Goldfish for, young MANI
Young Man (who is not altogether
satisfied with the business; "Cuse /
can't get nothing else 70 do ma'am. 49,
Epoch.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11
What can ,yc DO Tor youl

During n trial in hot weather. a car Of
q Prussim railway was kept about six
teen degrees cooler than the air outsid,
~ receiving its ventilating current
through an ice tank in the roof.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-25

boldly on sound Democratic doc
trines;-they will win understood.
2. Bring to the front men with
the courage of enlightened convic-
tons; men we can depend on to en-
force theprinciples they profess. We
will be beaten if we place in front
men who are afraid to speak in pub
lie the views they express in private.
3. Abandon Lnclean political
methods AMI rely on argument in
stead of money. Those who have
already grown rich by plundering
the sleeping masses will spend
81, 900 for every penny we can posi-
bly, command; but the words OF
truth win wake up the sleeping
masses and then votes are not in
market.
The DEMOCRAT viii teach sound
doctrines and will rouse the people
by showing how they are plundered
by the class who seek to carry cleo
tions by corrupt methods.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-25

Charles Francis Adams told q
Congressional committee two years
ago that the prohibition of free pass
es would save $4,000 a day to the
Union Pacific Railroad Company,
and would enable it to make very
considerable reduction in passenger
fares. Philadelphia Record.
The railroad company gives so
much in passes for so much adver-
Using, or so much in passes and so
much in money. 1t is trade ar
rangement, just as though the
newspapers were to take an adver
tisement from q merchant for so
much cash and so much ''in trade"
IRtelligencer.-
If a paper publishes that which
the managers wish kept from the
people, such paper cannot trade
advertising for a pass. We know
whereof we speak and this is GER
tainly true of county papers.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-25

If correct views are promulgated
soon enough, public opinion will not
drift in a wrong direction. The
value to the public Of this journal
lies in the fact that it has enlight
ened convictions and does not hest
tate to express them. The DEMO
Graf will not leave the path it has
chosen, and it behOoves all citizens.
who have sufficient intelligence to
appreciate the pecuniary value to
them Of good and wise government,
to aid the circulation Of such jour
nails. The legitimate revenues of a
paper depend on the number of its
subscribers and if the circulation of
the DEMOCRAT be increased we can
afford to give a larger volume of in
formation in each issue. IfthOse in
accord with our views will exert
themselves to increase the number
Of our subscribers we can meet the
expense to double the size Of this
paper and we greatly desire to do so.
The entire net income of the DEN
OcRAT will be applied to its improve
ment until it has accomplished its
mission.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-25
S. o. WEALTH.

At a recent meeting of oil produ-
GERS in Oil City, who were called to-
gether to ask relief of the Legisla-
ture against the extortion of the
Standard Oil Company in its oharg-
es for piping oil, one of the speakers
stated 'that the Standard Company
had capital stock of $70,000,000,
selling 100 per cent. above par; that
the Standard officials also had vast
fortunes, their possessions in the
aggregate being worth more than
the whole oil country" This state
ment is probably true. When it is
considered that this Standard hoard
has been largely accumulated thro'
undue grants Of power made by the
Legislature, against the protest Of
the people of the oil country and
against the interest of the State,
there ought to be no hesitation in
cutting down pipeline charges. If
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-25
RANDOLPH RIGHT.

All hail TO the the twelve disci-
pies of true Democracy! You have
not only proven that your manhood
is impervious to the corrupting in
luence of Standard Oil, but by your
undouhted courage and tirmness in
the right have won the admiration
of all good citizens. The sentiment
at this place in favor of the Coal Oil
Ring is very feeble and poor arti-
Gle, and has been moulded by We
nal press, government officials anda
third rate schoolteacher, who, by a
concurrence of favorable and unfor-
seen events, holds measly educa-
tional office. We presume he inner
tied his eminent qualities as a
statesman from his grandfather, who,
when a member of the House of Del
egates before the war, introduced !
bill to abolish the month of March.
1t is said that this young man
would be beneficiary by Camden's
reelection.
The Enterprise, Of this place,
heretofore a Camden organ. has, by
its endorsement of Coal Oil methods,
won the ill-will of our business men
and is now trying to reinstate itself
in their estimation by Topping to
the popular side.
Among the nti-Camden Demo
Gratis of Beverly, prominent in the
councils of their party in this Sec
ton, we will take the liberty to
name L. D. Strader, Claude Goff, A.
C. Rowan, Leland Kittle, w. L. Kee,
f. D. Talbot, G. H. Scott, Geo. E.
Greynolds, L. D. Greynolds, j. II.
Weymouth, A. B. Earle, S. I. Row,
an, H. L. Chenoweth, Archibald
Chenoweth, A. B. Kennedy, A. S.
Bosworth, P. Collett, DR.. Wamsley,
j. L. Wamsley, ]. L. Bosworth and
]. H. Dewitt. This list does not
contain, by any means, all of the
anti Camden Democrats in town, but
only those uppermost in the writer's
mind at present.
1t is q significant fact that the
Federal officials in this county are
active in the cause Of Camden. Dep
uty Collector j. w. Marshall. was
circulating q petition here last week
in approval of the action of Delegate
Harding, but without success. The
Internal Revenue officials were
equally as active last fall in setting
up the precinct caucuses for our
present Representative. Thus, we
see the servants Of the people, mas
tiers of the people. This sort of
thing we most complained of under
Republican domination, AMI ulti-
mately led to the overthrow of the
Republican party. The Democratic
party cannot, will not, long survive
as the dominant party in West Vir-
ginia if these un-Democratic prac-
tees, by Camden and his cohorts,
are passively submitted to by a
careless constituency.
THOMAS.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-25
TILDEN ON CIVIL SERVICE RE-
FORM.
Extract from His Letter Accepting the
Presidential Nomination in 1876.

Extract from His Letter Accepting the
Presidential Nomination in 1876.
The convention Justly afiirms that
reform is necessary in the civil ser
vice, necessary to its publication,
necessary to its economy and it's eff
ficiency, necessary in order that the
ordinary employment of the public
business may not be n prize fought
for at the ballet box, a brief reward
If party zeal, instead of posts of
honor assigned for proved compe-
tency and held for fidelity in the
public employ" Offices are not a
private perquisite. They are a pub
lie trust.
Two evils infest the official SER
vice of the federal government. One
is the prevalent and demoralizing
notion that the public service exists
not for the business and benefit of
the whole people, but for the inter
est of the Officeholders, who are in
truth but the servants of the people
Under the influence of this pernic-
iOus error public employments have
been multiplied, the number of those
gathered into the ranks of office
holders have been steadily increased
beyond any possible requirement of
the public business while inefliciency
pecuIatiOn, fraud and malversation
of the public funds, from the high
est places Of power to the lowest,
have overspread the whole service
like a leprosys
The other evil is the organization
of the official class into body Of
political mercenaries governing the
caucuses and debating the nomina-
tiOns of their own party, and at
tempting to carry the elections of
the people by undue influence and
by immense corruption funds syste-
matically collected from the salaries
or fees of officehOlders. The official
class in other countries, sometimes
by its own weight, and sometimes
in alliance with the army, has been
able to rule the unOrganized classes,
even under universal suffrage. Here
it has already grown into a gigantic
power, capable of sitting the inspi-
ration Of a sound public opinion and
of resisting an easy change of adj
ministratiOn, until misgovernment
becomes intolerable and public spir-
it has been stung to the pitch of a
civic revolution.
The first step in reform is the ele
Walton of the standard by which the
appointing power selects agents to
execute official trusts. Next in i'm
portance is a conscientious fidelity
in the exercise of the authority to
held to account and displace un-
trustworthy or incapable subordi-
mates. The public interest in an
honest, skillful performance Of Off
cial trust must not be sacrificed tc
the usufruct of the incumbents.
After these immediate steps, which
will insure the exhibition of better
examples, we may wisely 60 on to
the abolition of unnecessary offices,
and finally to the patient, careful
organization Of better civil service
system under the tests, wherever
practicable, of proved competency
and fidelity.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-25
The standard Oil Company.

HARRIsBURG, p, Feb. 2l.-The
array of Standard Oil people now
here to fight the Billingsley bill is
simply appalling. The Judiciary
General Committee of the House
will again consider the bill to-mor-
row afternoon, when S. c. t. Dodd,
of New York, the General Solicitor
of the Standard Company, will make
an argument against it.-Philadel-
Dhid Record
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-25
responsibility by repeating cam
paign SANDER.
COMMENTS.

No man expects Mr.. Lucas to
name individuals. 1t would be un-
pleasant and invidious. All men
know that in private conversation
much may be said which if repeated
in public would give to gentlemen a
notoriety they do not desire. 1t in
suits intelligence to suggest that
Mr.. Camden did nor rely on his
money to obtain votes. The chief
argument has been that, with the
exception Of Ex-senator Davis, he
is the only man in the State rich
enough to pay the cost of an cleo
ton. There are those of US in the
Democratic party who believe that
money would not be needed were it
not that these two gentlemen, (both
admitted to be utterly unfit for the
Senate and neither Of whom could
possibly be elected by a direct vote
undertake to use the ballot box for
their own personal and exclusive
benefit. Unfortunately the methods
ofthese gentlemen have taught many
of our young men to abandon the
principles of the party in the hopes
of gaining some temporary success.
Our party is weak, not because the
people have lost faith in Democratic
doctrines, but because they have no
confidence that those doctrines will
be enforced by that school of politi-
clans represented by Mr.. Davis and
Mr.. Camden. The people feel that
their politicians and newspapers are
banded together to deceive them.
To reinstate the party we must have
new men and new methods.
| know something about the con-
duct of this contest, and a cleaner
handed fight mas not been made
than that carried on by Mr.. Cam
den.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-25

A repeal of the tobacco tax means
a continuance of the tax on salt, on
timber, on machinery, on iron and
steel, on all the tools used on the
farm, on every utensil used about
the house, on everything that enters
into the building of the home. And
yet the farmers of Virginia have
been deluded into favoring this pro-
position. The tax on tobacco is not
paid by the producer,
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-25

the whole monstrous fabric of insa-
tiate monopoly could be leyeled to
the earth, as Jack the Giant-Kisler
brought down the bean stalk, it
would be an act of righteous justice.
--Philda. Record, Feb. II.